Pune:Sahara Stadium to host first ODI

The Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium will host its first One-Day International (ODI) when Australia tour India for one Twenty20 and seven ODIs during October-November. All the ODIs will be day-and-night matches starting at 2.30 p.m., said a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) statement.

The lone T20I will be played ahead of the ODI series Oct 10 at Rajkot, beginning at 7 p.m.

The Sahara Stadium hosted the first T20I in December last year when India beat England by five wickets.

Australia last visited India for a seven-match ODI series in October-November 2009, when they won 4-2 while their last bilateral ODI series in India was a three-match series in October 2010, of which two were washed out and India won the only game in Visakhapatnam.